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The delegates at the Second General Congregation of the Society of Jesus gathered in the summer of 1565, in part, to elect a success to Diego Laínez as the Jesuits’ superior general. They chose Francis Borgia, a former duke of Gandía. Borgia became the third superior general, “smitten by the sword of responsibility.” Borgia delivered

On April 10, 1972, Pedro Arrupe delivered the following remarks in Rome to a meeting of the Vatican officials, superiors, priests, and professors (these periodic meetings were organized under the Approdo Romano). To these leading figures in the Catholic Church, Arrupe speaks about the religious superior in the modern context. He cites the reasons why

In April 1973, the Secretariats of the International Union of Superiors General, the Union of Superiors General, and Multi-Media International organized the Mass Media Information Day for superiors general and assistants of religious orders. Pedro Arrupe then served both as the superior general of the Society of Jesus and the president of the Union of

Based on an address he delivered at the conclusion of the Congregation of Procurators in Rome in October 1970, Pedro Arrupe issued the following letter to the provincials of the Society of Jesus. The letter articulates the Jesuits’ four “apostolic priorities,” as determined by their superior general. The four prioritized areas are, in order, theological

On January 15, 1977, Pedro Arrupe delivered the following homily at the Mass marking his 50th anniversary as a member of the Society of Jesus. Such occasion, the Jesuits’ superior general notes, often marks the “dialectic between a man’s smallness and limitations and the greatness of the Creator.” Yet, each individual has his own story.

This brief decree contains the recommendation by the delegates to the 34th General Congregation that their newly selected superior general provide updated copies of guidelines for the formation of superiors in the Society of Jesus. For more from the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, please consult this page.     In order to

The delegates to the 33rd General Congregation empowered the superior general with certain authority to act after the congregation closed. The following decree articulates those areas, which are in keeping those given by previous congregations to the superior general. For more from the 33rd General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, please consult this page.  

The delegates of the 32nd General Congregation, in the following decree, reaffirm the “reverence and fidelity which all Jesuits should have toward the magisterium of the Church and in a special way toward” the pope. Their decree also regrets that “some members of the Society” had failed to adhere to the “long and venerable tradition

Postulta (or petitions) sent by Jesuits in advance of the 31st General Congregation requested that the congregation’s delegates revise the norms that previously censored some books. The delegates, in the following decree, respond to those requests by giving the superior general the authority to later “adapt the particular norms of our own law in this